>Good. Thanks Cetin.
>I used trim and set near, and it works as anticipated. That makes sense.
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>I will look into ingrid. I downloaded it, and don't think it will work for this application because it seems to be designed to populate the cell of a grid whereas I am trying to find particular records and update a form, unless I can use it outside the grid.
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>Thank you for the assistance here.

Jeff, check in the Files section for QuickFil and for Textbox Search. They're both in the Classes & VCX section. These are based on a stand-alone textbox instead of the Grid version.

HTH